Read this advance praise from David Blight (“a stellar group of scholars…The parts make a whole here that should alter the way we teach the Civil War and Reconstruction era.”), Tiya Miles (“In these interlocking chapters, readers will find hidden gems that illuminate ways in which the federal government sought to enforce its authority…”), Elliott West (“should startle every American historian into seeing just how much we have missed by leaving the American West too much out of the story”), and Ari Kelman (“vivid storytelling…No Civil War library can be considered complete without a copy of this volume.”).

Here is the table of contents:

Civil War Wests: Testing the Limits of the United States

Adam Arenson, Introduction

I. Borderlands in Conflict

James Robbins Jewell, Thwarting Southern Schemes and British Bluster in the Pacific Northwest — get it in PDF for free!

Megan Kate Nelson, Death in the Distance: Confederate Manifest Destiny and the Campaign for New Mexico, 1861-1862

Lance R. Blyth, Kit Carson and the War for the Southwest: Separation and Survival along the Rio Grande, 1862-1868

Diane Mutti Burke, Scattered People: The Long History of Forced Eviction in the Kansas-Missouri Borderlands